Alistair Huistean Macdonald (18 May 1925 – 6 February 1999) was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician.

Macdonald was educated at Dulwich College

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, Enfield

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 Technical College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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. He was a bank clerk and area treasurer of the National Union of Bank Employees. He served as a councillor on Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District

Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District

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 Council 1958-62 and as an alderman

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 on the newly formed London Borough of Bromley

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 from 1964.

Macdonald contested Beckenham

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 in 1964. He was Member of Parliament

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 for Chislehurst

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 from 1966 to 1970, when he lost the seat to his Conservative predecessor, Patricia Hornsby-Smith

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. Macdonald's two subsequent bids for re-election in 1974 were unsuccessful.